The project aims to provide a consistent management platform for distributed compute across multiple accelerators using smartNICs.

The operator is hitting its stride on 5G network deployments amid some shifts in the Japanese telecommunications market.

VMware bolsters SASE security with SaltStack buy; AT&T disaggregated routing; and Juniper jumped on Netrounds.

The AWS move is significant as both VMware’s Cloud on AWS and Tanzu have been significant interest drivers for the vendor.

The combination of Lightbits Labs’ NVMe-over-TCP with Intel products will provide an "optimized software and hardware" offering, the vendors said.

The automation product is built on Python and other open source projects, which VMware’s Ajay Singh called “one of the most compelling aspects of SaltStack.”

VMware integrated Menlo Security technologies into its SASE platform and started talking about its extended detection and response strategy today at VMworld.

“We have now deployed a next generation IP MPLS core routing platform into our production network based on this open software,” AT&T CTO Andre Fuetsch said.

Arista bought Awake for NDR security; Red Hat scored a Samsung OpenShift 5G Deal; and VMware needs to make a SASE security purchase.

VMware needs to think outside the virtual machine if it wants to compete in the SASE space, said Zeus Kerravala of ZK Research.

Parallel Wireless, one of Mavenir’s strongest competitors in the open RAN market, previously claimed to be the only open RAN vendor with 2G and 3G capabilities.

“We're not quite there yet with all the pieces in the open RAN," said Ian Hood, chief technologist at Red Hat.

HPE scorched Dell, Nutanix in hyperconverged revenue growth; Synchronoss CEO resigned; and IBM put a price tag on cyber risk.

“Microsoft realizes the world is going hybrid, multi, and they want to be the guardian of these combined estate via their own control plane," said Gartner's Sid Nag.

“We’ll get to open RAN when the time is right and the opportunity makes sense for us," T-Mobile's Neville Ray said.

Forrester Research ranked multi-cloud container development platforms from those three vendors ahead of five other vendors on the list, including VMware, D2iQ, and Mirantis.

AT&T's CEO warned of rough waters ahead; Snowflake's IPO is forecasted to score $4 billion; and Dell plans job cuts as VMware moves on remote pay cuts.

Telefónica will deploy open RAN base stations next year and intends to transition at least 50% of its markets to open RAN by 2025, according to CTO Enrique Blanco.

Pure Storage's Matt Kixmoeller calls the combination of Pure Storage and Portworx "an opportunity to provide the most complete storage platform."

Dimitris Mavrakis, senior research director at ABI Research, called the product a “major breakthrough and significant milestone in the evolution of open RAN.”

VMware drove Tanzu, Kubernetes deeper into its portfolio; 5G open RAN continued to struggle; and Verizon's 5G expansion will beat the next iPhone.

Adding MinIO object storage to the new vSAN platform gives VMware a healthy dose of the DevOps and open source appeal it needs to to win the Kubernetes wars.

A new vSphere-Tanzu combo provides enterprises with more flexibility to bring their own networking or storage compared with VMware's Cloud Foundation platform.

Overcoming myriad competing interests to achieve even some open RAN goals is an ongoing challenge with no apparent resolution in sight.